More bad news from Phoenix and elsewhere in the VA. Plus, the mother of a soldier killed looking for Bowe Bergdahl speaks up.

James Freeman

HIGHER RATES OF INFECTION Much of the recent coverage of dysfunction at the Phoenix VA hospital has focused on excessive wait times and staff efforts to cover them up. But the Journal reports on other threats to patients.

"The rate of potentially lethal bloodstream infections from central-intravenous lines was more than 11 times as high among patients at the Phoenix facility than it was at top VA hospitals, data from the year ended March 31, 2014, show," notes the Journal. "Those infections, called sepsis,...